Two black script tattoos reading Be Brave, one on the inside of a wrist and one at the nape of the neck, in a lettering style.

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Lettering · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A person seen from behind with their hair tied up shows two matching tattoos that both read Be Brave in flowing cursive script. The smaller wrist piece sits on the inner forearm of a raised arm, while the larger piece sits across the base of the neck above the shoulders. Both are in black ink with solid, even lines against lightly coloured skin and a plain yellow background.

Lettering Forearm Neck Script Word Phrase

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Your father's chair is still by the range, and I have not moved it, though Mrs Pryce from number nine says I ought to. The boat went out at four on the ebb. Ada watched it from the breakwater and came home saying the Morag sat low at the mouth, which I told her was only the light lying on the water.

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I have written the words on the back of the rent book because it was the nearest paper to hand. Be brave, Tom. I used the big looping capitals your grandmother taught me at the kitchen table, the ones she said were only for letters that mattered. Then I sat looking at them for a long while, because they look so much like something a person says when there is nothing else left in the house to offer.

Mr Keel came up the hill at seven with his cap in both hands. He said the Morag had made the mooring at Pell Rock and that was all he knew. Only that. I have turned it over every way since and I still cannot tell whether it is good news or just the kind that keeps a woman standing.

I have put the kettle on and aired your second-best jumper on the rail, where the warmth of the stove reaches it. When you come up the lane I will be at the gate with the lamp lit, and I will not say the words again. You will already have them in your own hand.